Form for bending wood



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' FORM FOR BENDING W001) No. 283,412. v Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

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BRUCE M. MYERS AND WILLIAM H.

H. WILLIAMS, or ros'ronm, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 283,412, dated August 21, 1883.

Application filed February 27, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, Butler: M. Mums and WILLIAM H. H. WILLIAMS, of Fostoria, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Forms for Bending and Shaping Wood; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art'to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which-- Figure 1 is a plan view of our form for bending and shaping wood, showing it with the segment of ahound as it appears during and immediately after bending; and Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the form loosened and ready for removal from the hound.

Similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Our invention relates to devices for bending and shaping timber to form thills, bows, follies, plow-handles, hounds, and similar articles made from bent wood; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts of a form or mold, the parts of which are hinged or jointed together in such a manner as to permit it to be loosened or collapsed for removing it from the piece of wood shaped around it, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

The precise shape or contour of the form will, of course, dependnpon the article to be bent and shaped by it; but therelative arrangement and combination of parts is in all cases the same. In theaccompanying illustration of our invention we have shown a form adapted to the shaping of hounds forvehicles, the letter Hrepresenting a segment of such a hound after it has been bent around the former. The latter is composed of the parts AA], B B, and C, hinged together in the five places marked D. The parts A and A have their corners cut off atd and d, so that the leaves of the hinge connecting them will be approximately at right angles to each other,

as shown in Fig. 1, when said parts Aland A are in a line with each other. F is a projecting handle, which is inserted into the end piece, 0, and by means of which the form may belifted out of the hound after bending; and E is a block, alsoaflixed to the part 0 to keep the form to its place in the bending-machine. The cross-piece G is a brace, which is left to connect the ends of the hound until it is cold, when it is removed. The wood is bent around the parts B G B while steam-hot, and the connecting-brace G placed in position. \Vhen the wood is cold the form is collapsed by thrusting the parts A A downward toward the end piece, 0, as shown in Fig. 2, which draws the side pieces, B B, inwardly toward each other, so that the form can readily be withdrawn by its handle F.

We claim and desire to secure Patent of the United States The form for bending and shaping wood, consisting of the centerpiece 0, having a suitably-constructed handle, sides B B, jointed by Letters to opposite ends of the center-piece, and connecting-pieces A A, jointed to the sides B B and to each other, and having their jointed inner ends beveled at d and d, to adapt said ends to be thrust in the direction of the center-piece 0, when it is desired to collapse the form, the whole constructed and combined substantially as and for the purpose shown and In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto affixed our signaturesin presence of two witnesses.

Jenn A. BRADNER, DAVID Hears. 

